Intentional Tea Time

03/01/2026

🌿 Herb of the Month – Sage 🌿
💫 Earthy, clarifying, and deeply grounding – sage invites wisdom, discernment, and energetic renewal. A strong ally for speaking your truth and clearing your space.
🫖 Sip as a tea or hold a sachet for wisdom. Burn for protection and renewal.

Metaphysical ✨
• Wisdom, clarity, protection
• Cleansing & energetic reset
• Grounded truth and discernment

Correspondences 🌙
• Element – Air
• Planet – Jupiter
• Chakra – Throat
• Magic – purification, longevity, boundaries

Health 💚
• Supports digestion & soothes the throat
• Traditionally used for cognitive support
• Antimicrobial & comforting during seasonal shifts

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02/28/2026

We’ll work with many of these, making tea together at the first Teacrafters Coven https://TeacraftersCoven.eventbrite.com

Plant these once this spring and harvest them for years. No reseeding, no replanting, no sad little grocery store packets drying out in your fridge. They come back tougher every spring and most of them spread on their own.

🌿 Twelve perennial herbs worth one trip to the nursery:

- Chives — the easiest perennial herb alive. The clumps double in size every year and the purple flower heads are edible too. Most people never realize they're sitting on free garnish
- Oregano — a single plant becomes a woody sprawling mat within two seasons. It overwinters under snow and comes back so strong you'll be giving bags away to neighbors
- Thyme — creeping varieties fill in between stepping stones and release scent when you walk on them. The plant gets woodier and more productive every year
- Mint — plant it in a buried pot or it will colonize your entire garden. One root fragment left in soil is enough to restart the whole operation
- Rosemary — in zones 7 and up it becomes a permanent evergreen shrub. A single plant can supply a kitchen for decades and it barely needs water once established
- Sage — the silvery leaves get more aromatic as the plant matures. By year three you'll have a shrub the size of a laundry basket producing more than you can use
- Lemon balm — mint's calmer cousin that self-seeds so enthusiastically you'll find it popping up in gravel paths by the second year
- French tarragon — doesn't self-seed but spreads underground through runners. One plant quietly builds a colony and the anise-flavored leaves are impossible to find fresh in stores
- Lovage — the forgotten giant. Grows five feet tall and tastes like concentrated celery. One plant produces enough to flavor soups and stocks all summer
- Roman chamomile — the perennial variety forms a low fragrant mat that comes back every year. The apple-scented flowers dry beautifully for tea
- Fennel — the feathery fronds return every spring and the plant self-seeds so freely that you'll have bronze and green volunteers appearing in unexpected corners
- Sorrel — the lemony leaves are one of the first things up in spring. This plant laughs at cold winters and produces from March through November in most climates

Most of these cost two to four dollars per starter plant. A dozen plants this March replaces years of grocery runs and gives you herbs with more flavor than anything in a plastic packet. The ones that spread — mint, lemon balm, fennel — you'll be dividing and giving away within two years.

One trip to the nursery this spring. Herbs every spring after that 🌱

02/26/2026

🍵 learn about the health benefits, flavor, profiles, energetic properties, and metaphysical correspondences of several common herbs as we embark on a teacrafting journey with Mike Barberesi (certified tea sommelier) that concludes with you creating a custom blend aligned to your intentions. ✨ March 10 • 6:30-8 • At the Downtown Sykesville Connection space • https://TeacraftersCoven.Eventbrite.com

02/25/2026

🫖 Blend custom teas with kitchen herbs, guided by a certified tea sommelier and tea witch in an intimate gathering space on Main Street 🌿
🍵 https://TeacraftersCoven.Eventbrite.com

Downtown Sykesville Connection
Mike Barberesi

02/21/2026

Blend. Breathe. Believe…🫖 Each of these gatherings invites a different way of sitting with tea – through creation, connection, and contemplation.
🌿 TeaCrafters’ Coven
Intentional tea blending with kitchen herbs.
March 10 · 6:30–8 PM
Downtown Sykesville Connection · 7611 Main St., Sykesville
This month, find magic in common kitchen herbs as you custom-blend a tea aligned with your intentions, sealing it in a tea-spell jar to integrate into your tea drinking ritual at home.
🌗 EquinoxTea
A seasonal tea ritual for balance and renewal.
March 22 · 2:00–4:30 PM
Moonshadow Collective · 7611 Main St., Sykesville
Realign with your intentions and the season through tea ceremony – sampling rare teas and a special seasonal Intentional Tea Time blend before crafting your own custom Equinox-aligned tea, sealed with the magic of the season in a tea-spell jar.
🍵 SpiritualiTea
A space to cultivate a deeper relationship with tea.
March 24 · 6:30–8 PM
The Esoteric Center · 101 W. Main St., Westminster
Take a tea journey through tasting, listening to the tea and yourself, and creating custom Intentional Tea Journey cards exploring the histories, energetics, and health benefits of white, green, oolong, and black teas to use in your practice.
🗓️Registration links and full details are in the comments.
If you’re unsure which gathering is right for you, feel free to reach out.
Mike Barberesi
Moonshadow Collective
Downtown Sykesville Connection